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Animating Blinkies
Once you have placed items together in a maker to create a blinkie you will need to animate it. Don't have an animation program no problem this tutorial will show you how to use freeware, that is free software, to animate.
You will need: MS Paint to save frames for your blinkies. Most computers come with this program so you most likely have it installed already.
Giffy 2.0 to change the bmp files from Paint into gif files. Click here for the free download.
UnFREEz 2.1 to create one animated gif file from several still images. Click here for the free download.
Once you have these programs installed follow the steps to create your animation.
1) On the page where you made your blinkie press the Print Scrn key located next to F12. If you are using a laptop you will need to hold down the Fn key while pressing PrtSc usually located next to the delete button. It will appear as if nothing happened but the computer has just copied the contents of your screen.You will need: MS Paint to save frames for your blinkies. Most computers come with this program so you most likely have it installed already.
Giffy 2.0 to change the bmp files from Paint into gif files. Click here for the free download.
UnFREEz 2.1 to create one animated gif file from several still images. Click here for the free download.
Once you have these programs installed follow the steps to create your animation.
2) Open the Paint program that usually comes with Windows, select Edit >> Paste from the drop down menu. You can also press Ctrl + V.
3) Once you have pasted your screen onto the page, select the crop or select tool. It looks like this
Draw around your blinkie as close to the edges as possible to select the image you want to keep.4) Copy your blinkie by right-clicking inside of the rectangle you just made and selecting Copy. Now open a new file by selecting File >> New from the menu. You can also press Ctrl + N. Paste your image into the new file Ctrl + V. Do not save the old file when the pop up asks you.
5) Now use the zoom tool
to make your image larger. Select the fill tool 
to change the background color of your image. Preferable to one that is not in your blinkie. Now save this file as "yourfile".bmp replacing "yourfile" with the name you choose.6) Still using the fill tool
make the first letter in your blinkie the color you want. Now save that file as "yourfile1".bmp.7) Select Edit >> Undo or Ctrl + Z to undo coloring the first letter, now fill the second letter with your color and save as "yourfile2".bmp
8) Continue this process until you have one file saved for each letter you have colored and one with all the letters colored.
9) Now open Giffy and convert each "yourfile.bmp" into gif format.
10) Open UnFREEz and put all your GIF files in working order. Set the Frame Delay to 10.
11) Now just click Make Animated GIF and save your blinkie with whatever name you choose, upload and place it where you want!
